One of the major impediments to developing programmatic action against micronutrient deficiency among women of reproductive age has been the lack of adequate indicators. MDD-W is an attempt to fill that gap.

This short brief provides EU staff with operational recommendations for designing and implementing a resilience-building programme. It builds on major promising practices emerging from the EC’s experience with the RESET (RESilience-building in EThiopia) programme

Thanks to a clever use of existing procedures, the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso working in partnership with the government, successfully managed a seamless transition from an emergency intervention by the Commission’s humanitarian body, ECHO, to offering long-term support to more than 100,000 flood victims.